May 26 - Back to the Pool

Summer swim season has officially commenced and the first meet was this past weekend. I absolutely love everything about summer swim-the kids, the parents, the teamwork, the positive attitudes and how everyone cheers for each other (I even enjoy the early mornings and 6+ hours at the pool hehe). JD took Julia and Luke to the pool at 6am for warmups while I came around 8am with Jillian. Jillian is one of those kids who sleeps in during the week and is up super early on the weekends so I had no trouble getting her out the door on-time. Luke and Julia both swam the 100IM (events 2 and 3) so I knew we couldn't be late!

Luke

100IM: 4th place! All the 9-10 boys on our team were in this event and we have a stacked team. Three of the boys on the team are year round swimmers and one of them is a top 10 swimmer in the state. Luke held his own and did fantastic! I'm impressed he swam legally and placed 4th!! 

Medley Relay: Luke, Crichton, Kaleb and Adam (Luke plus the year round swimmers) were the U8 boys 'dream team' 2 years ago that broke a 16 year old team record and almost broke the league record at the championship meet. Now, as 10 year olds they are back together and swimming 50s. This was their first race together and once again-they were unstoppable! Luke swam the first leg (backstroke) and got them a big lead which everyone built on. They lapped the 2nd place team! Great job boys!

50 Back: 2nd place! Luke's best stroke is backstroke and he looked so smooth in the water!

50 Breast: 2nd place! Luke tied one of the year round swimmers! He has a great glide and looks very confident in the water. 

Free Relay: once again, the 'dream team' was back together and they lapped the competition!! 

Luke also qualified for the champ meet in all his individual events, great job Luke!!

Julia

100IM: 2nd place! Julia just started club again swimming 3 weeks ago and is still getting back in shape so she wasn't expecting much this meet. Surprisingly, she was tied with Reese (swims year round) at the last turn but Reese brought it home strong on the freestyle. Julia dropped over 9 secs from 2 years ago!

Medley Relay: Kennedy (does not swim club anymore), Reese (year old swimmer), Julia (part time swimmer) and Ana (new summer swimmer who rocked the practice meet) swam together for the first time in the medley relay and did fantastic! They easily won and all the girls looked strong in the water!

50 Back: 1st place! Julia shocked all of us going 33, dropping over 3 secs. Wowsa. She is a half a second off the USA "A" cut for this event. 

50 Fly: 1st place! And let me tell you everyone...Julia further shocked us (and herself) by going 31.47!! She dropped 3 secs in this as well! She is just a few tenths off the USA "A" cut for this event.

Free Relay: DQ'd due to a false start between legs 1 and 2. They would have won easily but it's a good lesson for the girls that transitions are important. 

Julia also qualified for the champ meet in all her individual events, great job Julia!

JD & Jillian

JD is an official again this year and he was the starter at the meet. Jillian was my little buddy and we hung out together the whole meet. She did pretty good and loved cheering on everyone.